Birth of the World (from the series Puye Cliff Dwelling, New Mexico)

Artist: Barbara Kasten (American, born 1936)

Date: 1990

Medium: silver-dye bleach print

Dimensions:

Image: 6 1/2 x 8 13/16 in. (16.5 x 22.4 cm)

Support: 7 15/16 x 10 in. (20.2 x 25.4 cm)

Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)

Classification: Photograph

Credit Line: Gift of Barbara Kasten in honor of Joyce Peters, 2014

Keywords and Associated Locations:

colors
Pueblo
ancestors
religion
rituals (events)
cliffs
pueblos (housing complexes)
kivas
ladders

Object number: 2014.15.1

Description

During a 1990 visit to the Puye Cliff Dwellings in northern New Mexico, ancestral home to the people of Santa Clara Pueblo, the artist was inspired to make a series of photographs to evoke her experience of the spirituality of the place and to honor Native Americans, as well as the ancestors of all peoples.

Not on view